Mark MacKinnon
ANKARA — The Globe and Mail Published
Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 5:37PM EST
There’s a plan to start flying Syrian
refugees from the south of Turkey to Canada some time soon. All that’s
missing is a Health Canada-certified hospital and an airport – and a
safe way to get the refugees there.
While
the first planeloads from Lebanon and Jordan have already begun
arriving in Toronto and Montreal, the first refugee flights from
southern Turkey – the third and most complicated leg of the operation –
are still some way off. The security delays may put into question the
Liberal government’s promises to bring the first 10,000 refugees to
Canada by the end of December, and 25,000 by the end of February.
有一个开始从土耳其南部向加拿大南部空运叙利亚难民的计划。唯一缺少的是一个加拿大卫生部认证的医院和机场 - 和以安全的方式将难民送达那里。
由安全问题引起的延误已经引发对自由党政府承诺的质疑。自由党承诺十二月底1万名难民到加拿大,在2月底带来的2万5千名难民到加拿大。
The problem is the location. Turkey, which
hosts the largest share of Syrian refugees at 2.2 million, has for
years been a peninsula of stability jutting into a sea of chaos. But now
the waters are rising and it’s no longer clear that the south of the
country – where most of the refugees on track for a move to Canada are
located – is immune to the troubles that have consumed Turkey’s
neighbours
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